A Foldable Compact Memory Foam Travel Neck Pillow

ABSTRACT

The utility model relates to an article for daily use, namely a foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow, which includes a pillow body and a support body, with the pillow body being equipped with a cavity to accommodate the support body; the support body consists of an elastic support (C/U-shaped) and two underpinning supports, with the two underpinning supports being respectively fixed at both ends of the elastic support in a rotational way. The utility model performs well in underpinning force, and can be used, worn and packaged in a convenient way.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The utility model relates to articles for daily use, and more particularly relates to a foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow.

BACKGROUND ART

People often travel long distances from place to place for business or travel, and sometimes they need to spend quite a long time on transport vehicles as passengers. Sitting in the same position for a long time may impose much pressure on the neck, and thus make passengers feel uncomfortable. Therefore, it is necessary for passengers to carry with them a portable, compact and user-friendly neck pillow. Some travel neck pillows currently seen in the market are made of memory foam. Being soft in material, memory foam alone can hardly satisfy support demand unless being large enough in dimension and use quantity. Besides, as memory foam itself is quite soft and likely to deform, it is difficult to fix it to the neck. At present, it is common to see the two ends of a neck pillow product connected for fixation by the following methods:

1. Fixed with drawstring and clasp;

2. Fixed with belt buckle;

3. Fixed with magic tape;

4. Fixed with covered button;

5. Fixed with common button.

All methods mentioned above entail different fixation steps, causing a lot of inconvenience in the process of using, wearing and removal of a neck pillow product. What's worse, the packaging of a traditional memory foam neck pillow typically entails squeezing air out of memory foam while rolling the pillow up to make it thin enough and deformed to some extent to be packed in the package bag, making pillow control quite complicated and time-consuming. When being unpacked for reuse, the pillow can hardly restore to the usable state within a short time.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Technical Problems

Targeting defects or deficiencies in existing techniques, the utility model aims to supply a new-type neck pillow that is able to solve such technical problems as incompact structure, poor bearing and inconvenient carrying, wearing, removal and packaging.

Solution

To achieve the purpose mentioned above, the utility model proposes such a solution as providing a foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow, which includes a pillow body and a support body, with the pillow body being equipped with a cavity to accommodate the support body; the support body consists of an elastic support (C/U-shaped) and two underpinning supports, with the two underpinning supports being respectively fixed at both ends of the elastic support in a rotational way.

As a further improvement to the utility model, either of the underpinning supports includes an inner side and an outer side, with the inner side being concave to the outer side into a groove.

As a further improvement to the utility model, several holes are set on the underpinning supports.

As a further improvement to the utility model, the underpinning supports are connected with the elastic support through hinge.

As a further improvement to the utility model, the underpinning supports are equipped with installation parts at the outer side, there are installation holes set on the both ends of the elastic support, and the hinge includes both folding and fixation parts, with one end of the folding part being rotationally fixed with one end of the fixation part, the other end of the folding part being fixed with the installation part in an in-built way, and the other end of the fixation part being fixed with the installation hole through rivet.

As a further improvement to the utility model, the cavity mentioned above includes interconnected No. 1 cavity and No. 2 cavity, being used to accommodate the elastic support and the underpinning supports respectively. When either underpinning support is opened for the use of the neck pillow, there is always a gap between the groove of the underpinning support and the pillow body where No. 2 cavity is located.

As a further improvement to the utility model, the underpinning supports are either elliptic or quadrilateral, and quadrilateral supports are typically equipped with four round corners.

As a further improvement to the utility model, the pillow body is made of foam.

As a further improvement to the utility model, the support body is made of plastics.

As a further improvement to the utility model, one or more protective layers made of linen or cotton are set outside the pillow body (the number of protective layers is unlimited solely for the purpose of protecting the pillow body); synthetic elastic fiber or velvet may also be adopted as materials for the protective layer (s), and such materials are generally soft and durable.

Beneficiary Effects of the Invention

The utility model adopts the design of in-built supports to effectively underpin pillow, while making it more convenient to use, wear, remove and pack up pillow. Thanks to the utility model, neck pillows can be made of a relative small quantity of memory foam, making them more compact and lightweight.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is the structural diagram of the utility model;

FIG. 2 is the structural diagram of the support body of the utility model;

FIG. 3 is the structural diagram of the part of the utility model which is numbered 04 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is the front view of the part of the utility model which is numbered 04 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is the left view of the utility model;

FIG. 6 is the wearing diagram of the utility model;

FIG. 7 is the unfolding diagram of the utility model;

FIG. 8 is the folding diagram of the utility model;

FIG. 9 is the packaging diagram of the utility model;

FIG. 10 is the neck motion perimeter diagram of the utility model;

Indications of numbers in above-mentioned figures: elastic support 01; installation hole 11; underpinning support 02; groove 21; hole 22; installation part 23; hinge 03; folding part 31; fixation part 32; rivet 33; pillow body 04; No. 1 cavity 41; No. 2 cavity 42; pocket 05.

EMBODIMENT

The utility model will hereinafter be described in detail in conjunction with the attached drawings and some embodiments.

As is shown in FIG. 1, the utility model includes a pillow body and a support body placed within the pillow body 04. Being fully wrapped by the pillow body 04, the support body mainly plays the role of supporting and shaping and aims to resolve the technical problem of poor underpinning of traditional pillow neck. To be specific, the support body is placed within and fully wrapped by the cavity of the pillow body 04, and the support body also includes an elastic support 01 and a underpinning support 02 rotationally connected with the two ends of the elastic support 01 (U/C-shaped). The underpinning support 02 can fold toward the inner side of the support body with one end of the support body as pivot, so that users can easily pack up the neck pillow simply through folding the underpinning support 02.

Embodiment 1

based on the embodiment just mentioned, the utility model proposes a foldable compact memory foam travel beck pillow, and this embodiment differs as follows: as is shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 5, the underpinning support includes an inner side and an outer side, with the inner side being concave to the outer side into a groove 21; several holes 22 are set on the underpinning support 02 for the purpose of ventilation, which can help improve air flow inside the neck pillow in the process of pillow packaging and shape restoration, while expanding the contact surface and strengthening the friction between the pillow body 04 and the underpinning support 02, thus enhancing the support force from the neck pillow to the jaw and neck.

Further, the underpinning support 02 is connected with the elastic support 01 through a hinge 03, which consists of a folding part 31 and an installation part 32, with one end of the folding part 31 being rotationally fixed with one end of the fixation part 32; the underpinning support 02 is equipped with an installation part 23 at the outer side, and the elastic support 01 is equipped with an installation hole 11 at each end, the other end of the folding part 31 is fixed with the installation part 23 in an in-built way, and the other end of the fixation part 32 is fixed with the installation hole 11 through rivet. Several protrusions are set on the folding part 31 to prevent the underpinning support 02 from moving leftward, rightward, frontward or backward. Besides, the cavities mentioned above include interconnected No. 1 cavity 41 and No. 2 cavity 42, being used to accommodate the elastic support 01 and the underpinning support 02 respectively. When the underpinning support 02 is opened for the use of the neck pillow, there is always a gap between the groove 21 of the underpinning support 02 and the pillow body 04 where No. 2 cavity 42 is located. The edge of the underpinning support 02 contacts the pillow body 04, forming a gap between the middle concave part in the groove 21 of the underpinning support 02; enhanced by the elasticity of the elastic support 01, the edge of the underpinning support 02 can effectively fix the contact position between the support body and the pillow body 04, enabling the neck pillow to be properly fixed to the neck in a more effective way.

Embodiment 2

based on the embodiment just mentioned, the utility model proposes a foldable compact memory foam travel beck pillow, and this embodiment differs as follows: as is mentioned in FIGS. 1, 2, 5 and 7, the underpinning support 02 is typically elliptic or quadrilateral, and when it is quadrilateral, its four corners are all round ones; of course, it can also be pentagonal, hexagonal, etc. To be specific, the support body is made of plastics, and in fact, the production of relevant support bodies has already minimized the use of metal parts while maximizing the use of plastics for reasons of aviation safety, safety inspection, etc., while the hinge may adopt metal as material to ensure the folding times of the neck pillow; the pillow body 04 is made of foam, generally memory foam, thanks to which the neck pillow can restore to the usable state soon upon being unfolded, thus largely saving operation time.

Embodiment 3

based on the embodiment just mentioned, the utility model proposes a foldable compact memory foam travel beck pillow, and this embodiment differs as follows: one or more protective layers made of linen, cotton, velvet or synthetic elastic fiber are set outside the pillow body 04, with the number of such protective layers being determined by users themselves.

In case of long journey, most passengers may feel weary especially in the neck position, as neck needs to support the weight of the head, so it is necessary for them to carry a neck pillow to relieve the burden on the neck. Based on ergonomic researches, this neck pillow is developed with relevant neck or head data as reference and relevant medical products as contrast. The appearance of the memory foam adopted in the neck pillow takes ergonomic neck perimeter (Western adults) as design basis, as shown in FIG. 10 and the tables below.

TABLE 1 Neck rotation scope of male and female adults Male Female 5th 95th 5th 95th Unit (cm) percentile percentile percentile percentile Neck, rotation 73.3 99.6 74.9 108.8 right (B) Neck, rotation 74.3 99.1 72.2 109.0 left (A)

TABLE 2 Neck flexion and extension scope of adult males and females Male Female 5th 95th 5th 95th Unit (cm) percentile percentile percentile percentile Neck, 34.5 71.0 46.0 84.4 flexion (B) Neck, 65.4 103.0 4.9 103.0 extension (A)

TABLE 3 Lateral bending scope of adult male and female Male Female 5th 95th 5th 95th Unit (cm) percentile percentile percentile percentile Neck, lateral 34.9 63.5 37.0 63.2 bend (A) Neck, lateral 35.5 63.5 29.1 77.2 bend (B)

TABLE 4 Neck perimeter of adult male and female 5th percentile 50th percentile 95th percentile Male 35.5 cm 38.7 cm 41.9 cm Female 34.5 cm 37.1 cm 39.7 cm

It can be concluded from the data above that the neck perimeter of adult male is generally 35.5-41.9 cm, and that of adult female is generally 34.5-39.7 cm. Designed in accordance with these data, the appearance of the pillow body suits the neck perimeters of most adult males and females. Reasonably designed inner side of the pillow body can significantly improve the wearing comfort of users.

Besides, according to researches on the sitting postures and head/neck positions of long-journey passengers, users typically feel more comfortable and safer when wearing the neck pillow. We firstly determine the shape and size of the pillow body 04 (namely the memory foam adopted) based on data regarding neck perimeters and medical neck supports, and then, according to neck motion scope parameters, the size, shape and elasticity of the support body designed and other references, design a neck pillow comfortable enough without affecting neck motion scope.

The utility model is a neck pillow produced upon multiple tests, adjustments and improvements, and in combination with the softness of the memory foam material and the elasticity of the in-built support body; with its size being suitable for public use, the neck pillow can make users feel more comfortable and safer.

As is shown in FIG. 5-9, the C/U-shaped elastic support of the support body can provide sufficient elasticity to make the neck pillow effectively fixed to the neck of users, while ensuring convenient and rapid wearing and removal. Well integrating the height and elasticity of the C/U-shaped elastic support and the softness of memory form, the neck pillow, when being worn by users, or when users head back, can ensure the comfort and safety of users. Users may also independently rotate the neck pillow to the position they feel comfortable according to current environment and needs. For the underpinning support 02 of the support body, the design of its size and stereo shape is exactly the result of multiple researches, tests and adjustments. Besides, there are also a few sets of vent holes set on the surface of the underpinning support 02, which can help improve air flow inside the neck pillow in the process of pillow packaging and shape restoration, while expanding the contact surface and strengthening the friction between memory form and the underpinning support 02, thus enhancing the support force from the neck pillow to the jaw and neck.

The edge of the underpinning support 02 contacts memory form, forming a gap in the middle concave part of the underpinning support 02, namely the groove 21; enhanced by the elasticity of the elastic support 01, the edge of the underpinning support 02 can effectively fix the contact position between the support and memory foam, enabling the neck pillow to be properly fixed to the neck in a more effective way.

Besides, as the packaging of a traditional memory foam neck pillow typically entails squeezing air out of memory foam while rolling the pillow up to make it thin enough and deformed to be packed in the package bag, making pillow control quite complicated and time-consuming. When being unpacked for reuse, the pillow can hardly restore to the usable state within a short time. However, for our neck pillow, as is mentioned above, there is a gap between the middle concave part of the underpinning support 02 and memory foam, and when the underpinning support 02 folds inwards, the memory foam will be deformed for squeezing and then filled in the gap while still maintaining plenty air inside, thus largely shortening the time for packaged neck pillow to restore to the usable state for reuse.

Thanks to additional elasticity and underpinning force from in-built supports, the neck pillow can be made of a relative small quantity of memory foam materials compared with traditional memory foam neck pillow, making it compact and lightweight while still being able to provide sufficient underpinning force and sense of safety.

Enhanced by additional elasticity from in-built supports, the utility model can ensure effective fixation of neck pillow to the neck of users. Without being fixed by drawstring, clasp, belt buckle, magic tape, covered button or common button, the neck pillow is quite easy for wearing and removal.

The support body of the neck pillow can properly underpin the weight of the neck, jaw and head without obstructing users' motion or making users feel uncomfortable. Being elastic, the in-built support body can ensure comfortable and sufficient underpinning force to make the neck pillow effectively fixed to the neck of users while making users feel safer; as the support body is elastic enough to fix the neck pillow to the neck without any other fixture, users can rapidly fix the neck pillow to and remove it from their necks without specially removing any other fixture.

The following are beneficial effects of the utility model: the utility model 1) adopts the design of in-built supports to effectively underpin pillow, while making it more convenient to use, wear, remove and pack up pillow. Thanks to the utility model, neck pillows can be made of a relative small quantity of memory foam, making them more compact and lightweight; 2) makes it convenient to pack up the neck pillow through the elastic support 01 and the underpinning support 02 set on both ends of the elastic support 01 that can roll inward to the center of the C/U-shaped elastic support 01; 3) the vent holes set on the surface of the underpinning support 02 can help improve air flow inside the neck pillow in the process of packaging and shape restoration, while expanding the contact surface and strengthening the friction between memory form and the underpinning support 02, thus enhancing the support force from the neck pillow to the jaw and neck; 4) enhanced by the elasticity of the C/U-shaped elastic support 01, the edge of the groove part in the underpinning support 02 can effectively fix the contact position between the support body and memory foam, enabling the neck pillow to be properly fixed to the neck in a more effective way; 5) The groove 21 part of the underpinning support 02 contacts memory foam to form a gap, in which the memory foam is allowed to be filled when being squeezed for packaging, and when being unpacked for wearing and reuse, the squeezed memory foam can restore to the usable state in a faster way; 6) the underpinning support 02 may roll inward toward the center of the elastic support 01 in times of packaging and folding, and the motion scope specified can guide users to fold and pack up the neck pillow in a faster and more proper way. When being taken out of the package bag, the neck pillow can rapidly restore to the usable state following the automatic pop-up of underpinning supports 02 at the both sides due to the inhalation of air by memory foam; 7) the elastic support 01 is elastic enough to fix the neck pillow to the neck; the neck pillow can ensure a more convenient wearing and removal, as it doesn't need addition fixation using drawstring, clasp, belt buckle, magic tape, covered button or common button, so that it can be easily removed from users' necks without special removal of any other fixture.

The above contents are further detailed explanations of the utility model based on specific implementation modes, and it cannot be considered that the specific implementations of the utility model are limited to these explanations. For ordinary technical personnel in the technical field of the utility model, they may also make certain simple deductions or replacements without breaking away from the conception of the utility model, and all such deductions or replacements shall be regarded as being within the protection scope of the utility model. 

1. A foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow, wherein the neck pillow includes a pillow body and a support body, with the pillow body being equipped with a cavity to accommodate the support body; the support body consists of an elastic support (C/U-shaped) and two underpinning supports, with the two underpinning supports being respectively fixed at both ends of the elastic support in a rotational way.
 2. The foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow of claim 1 is wherein either of the underpinning supports includes an inner side and an outer side, with the inner side being concave to the outer side into a groove.
 3. The foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow of claim 2 is wherein several holes are set on the underpinning supports.
 4. The foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow of claim 3 is wherein the underpinning supports are connected with the elastic support through a hinge.
 5. The foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow of claim 4 is wherein the underpinning supports are equipped with installation parts at the outer side, there are installation holes set on the both ends of the elastic support, and the hinge includes both folding and fixation parts, with one end of the folding part being rotationally fixed with one end of the fixation part, the other end of the folding part being fixed with the installation part in an in-built way, and the other end of the fixation part being fixed with the installation hole through rivet.
 6. The foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow of claim 2 is wherein the cavity mentioned above includes interconnected No. 1 cavity and No. 2 cavity, being used to accommodate the elastic support and the underpinning supports respectively. When either underpinning support is opened for the use of the neck pillow, there is always a gap between the groove of the underpinning support and the pillow body where No. 2 cavity is located.
 7. The foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow of claim 6 is wherein the underpinning supports are either elliptic or quadrilateral, and quadrilateral supports are typically equipped with four round corners
 8. The foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow of claim 7 is wherein the pillow body is made of foam.
 9. The foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow of claim 6 wherein the underpinning supports are made of plastics.
 10. The foldable compact memory foam travel neck pillow of claim 1 wherein one or more protective layers made of linen, cotton, velvet or synthetic fiber are set outside the pillow body. 